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  • #1
    Brian Moore
    “Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
    Brian Moore

  • #2
    Alan W. Watts
    “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
    Alan Wilson Watts

  • #3
    Alan Cumming
    “It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.”
    Alan Cumming, Not My Father's Son
    tags: ethos

  • #4
    René Crevel
    “No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.”
    René Crevel

  • #5
    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #6
    Gautama Buddha
    “Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
    Gautama Buddha

  • #7
    Gautama Buddha
    “Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”
    Siddhārtha Gautama

  • #8
    Gautama Buddha
    “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

  • #9
    Gautama Buddha
    “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
    Gautama Buddha

  • #10
    Gautama Buddha
    “Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
    Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

  • #11
    Gautama Buddha
    “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #12
    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #17
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #18
    Pema Chödrön
    “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
    Pema Chodron

  • #19
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power: A Zen Master's Guide to Redefining Power, Achieving True Freedom and Discovering Lasting Happiness in a Stressful World

  • #20
    Gautama Buddha
    “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
    Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

  • #21
    “You only lose what you cling to.”
    Guatama Buddha

  • #22
    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #23
    Gautama Buddha
    “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

    [Verse 223]”
    Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

  • #24
    Gautama Buddha
    “Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, ‘This contemplative is our teacher.’ When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness’ — then you should enter & remain in them.

    [Kalama Sutta, AN 3.65]”
    Gautama Buddha, Die Reden Des Buddha Aus Dem Ang�ttaranikaya; Aus Dem Pali Zum Ersten Male �bers. Und Erl�utert Von Myanatiloka

  • #25
    Gautama Buddha
    “It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni, The Sutra Of The Forty-Two Sections

  • #26
    Socrates
    “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
    Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

  • #27
    Ambrose Bierce
    “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
    Rumi

  • #29
    Susan Cain
    “Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #30
    Susan Cain
    “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking



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